- Blue Thunder, p. 34.
- Blue Thunder, p. 71.
- Blue Thunder, p. 95.
- Blue Thunder, p. 103.
- Blue Thunder, pp. 326-327.
- Blue Thunder, pp. 351, 357.
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George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography --- by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin
Chapter -XXI- Omaha
On the morning of June 29, 1989, pandemonium erupted in the corridors of power in the nation's
capital. Homosexual Prostitution Probe Ensnares Official of Bush, Reagan,'' screamed the front- page headline of the Washington Times with the kickerCall Boys Took Midnight Tour of WHouse.'' hite
The Times reported, ``A homosexual prostitution ring is under investigation by federal and District
authorities and includes among its clients key officials of the Reagan and Bush administrations,
military officers, congressional aides and U.S. and foreign businessmen with close ties toWashington's political elite.''
The exposeé centered on the role of one Craig Spence, a Republican powerbroker known for his
lavish ``power cocktail'' parties. Spence was well connected. He celebrated Independence Day 1988
by conducting a midnight tour of the White House in the company of two teenage male prostitutesamong others in his party.
Rumors circulated that a list existed of some 200 Washington prominents who had used the call boy
service. The Number Two in charge of personnel affairs at the White House, who was responsible
for filling all the top civil service posts in the federal bureaucracy, and Secretary of Labor ElizabethDole's chief of staff, were two individuals publicly identified as patrons of the call boy ring.
Two of the ring's call boys were allegedly KGB operatives, according to a retired general from the
Defense Intelligence Agency interviewed by the press. But the evidence seemed to point to a CIA
sexual blackmail operation, instead. Spence's entire mansion was covered with hidden microphonetwo-way mirrors and video cameras, ever ready to capture the indiscretions of Washington's high, s,
mighty and perverse. The political criteria for proper sexual comportment had long been established
in Washington: Any kinkiness goes, so long as you don't get caught. The popular proverb was that
the only way a politician could hurt his career was if he were caught with a dead woman or a live boy'' in his bed. Months after the scandal had died down, and a few weeks before he allegedly committed suicide, Spence was asked who had given him thekey'' to the White House. The Washington Times
reported that `Mr. Spence hinted the tours were arranged bytop level' persons, including Donald
Gregg, national security advisor to Vice President Bush''@s1 and later U.S. ambassador to South